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Attackathon | Stacks

Stacks is a Bitcoin L2 enabling smart contracts & apps with Bitcoin as the secure base layer. This Attackathon focuses on Stacks’ sBTC upgrade.

Bitcoin
Stacks
L2
Rust
Clarity

Live

22d: 0h remaining
Rewards Pool
$250,000
Vault TVL
To be determined
Started
02 December 2024
Ends
13 January 2025
Rewards Token
STX
nSLOC
25,492
  • Triaged by Immunefi

  • PoC required

  • KYC required

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Assets in Scope

Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - sBTC Signer - a signer entity separate from the Stacks Nakamoto signer which signs sBTC operations, communicates with sBTC contracts, and manages sBTC UTXOs. - 19760
Added on
2 December 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Emily - An API that helps facilitate and supervise the sBTC Bridge - 6000
Added on
2 December 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - Protobuffs - Platform-neutral extensible mechanisms for serializing structured data. - 292
Added on
2 December 2024
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - lib-sbtc - A library for creating BTC deposit transactions that can be handled by the sBTC signers. - 1186
Added on
2 December 2024
Target
Type
Smart Contract - Smart Contract - sBTC contracts - The Clarity contracts for the sBTC protocol. - 645
Added on
2 December 2024

Impacts in Scope

Asset Accuracy Assurance

Bugs found on assets incorrectly listed in-scope will be considered valid and be rewarded. The initial launch of sBTC does not enable withdrawals back to Bitcoin. While partial code to support withdrawals can be found in the codebase, issues that can’t be exploited in “deposit-only” mode will be downgraded.

Public Disclosure of Known Issues

Bug reports covering previously-discovered bugs (listed below) are not eligible for a reward within this program. This includes known issues that the project is aware of but has consciously decided not to “fix”, necessary code changes, or any implemented operational mitigating procedures that can lessen potential risk.

The project will share detailed changelogs when code changes are released during the Attackathon on Discord and they will be documented in our Stacks changelog.

Previous Audits

Stacks’s completed audit reports can be found at https://stacks.org/audits. Any unfixed vulnerabilities mentioned in these reports are not eligible for a reward.

Private Known Issues Reward Policy

Private known issues, meaning known issues that were not publicly disclosed, are valid for a reward.

Primacy of Impact vs Primacy of Rules

Stacks adheres to the Primacy of Rules, which means that the whole bug bounty program is run strictly under the terms and conditions stated within this page.

Severity
Critical
Title

Direct loss of funds

Severity
Critical
Title

Permanent freezing of funds (fix requires hardfork)

Severity
Critical
Title

Direct theft of any user funds, whether at-rest or in-motion, other than unclaimed yield

Severity
Critical
Title

Permanent freezing of funds

Severity
Critical
Title

Protocol insolvency

Severity
High
Title

Network not being able to confirm new transactions (total network shutdown)

Severity
High
Title

Unintended chain split (network partition)

Severity
High
Title

Theft of unclaimed yield

Severity
High
Title

Permanent freezing of unclaimed yield

Severity
High
Title

Unintended permanent chain split requiring hard fork (network partition requiring hard fork)

Severity
High
Title

Temporary freezing of funds for at least 24h

Severity
Medium
Title

Block stuffing

Out of scope

Program's Out of Scope information

Security researchers are required to submit KYC within 14 days of KYC being requested, else their rewards may be forfeited. Immunefi may make exceptions due to extenuating circumstances.

Default Out of Scope and rules

Blockchain/DLT specific

  • Incorrect data supplied by third party oracles
    • Not to exclude oracle manipulation/flash loan attacks
  • Impacts requiring basic economic and governance attacks (e.g. 51% attack)
  • Lack of liquidity impacts
  • Impacts from Sybil attacks
  • Impacts involving centralization risks

All categories

  • Impacts requiring attacks that the reporter has already exploited themselves, leading to damage
  • Impacts caused by attacks requiring access to leaked keys/credentials
  • Impacts caused by attacks requiring access to privileged addresses (including, but not limited to: governance and strategist contracts) without additional modifications to the privileges attributed
  • Impacts relying on attacks involving the depegging of an external stablecoin where the attacker does not directly cause the depegging due to a bug in code
  • Mentions of secrets, access tokens, API keys, private keys, etc. in Github will be considered out of scope without proof that they are in-use in production
  • Best practice recommendations
  • Feature requests
  • Impacts on test files and configuration files unless stated otherwise in the bug bounty program
  • Impacts requiring phishing or other social engineering attacks against project's employees and/or customers